# Post ts_110708257590386084 - Post ID: `ts_110708257590386084` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-13T18:45:50.044Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110708257590386084 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110708257590386084/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110708257590386084.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ## Engagement - Likes: 31,482 - Reposts: 8,339 - Replies: 2,475 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:14:33.674Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" — July 13, 2023 ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** Trump in July 2023 was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ (his regular summer residence). EDT = UTC−4. Post time: **2:45 PM EDT** — squarely within business hours. This, combined with the post's complete absence of original content (a naked slogan, no syntax, no personal affect), strongly suggests **aide-authored or scheduled content**, likely by Dan Scavino or an equivalent digital operation staff member. The post reads as a deliberate campaign/brand punctuation marker rather than an impulsive authentic dispatch. Contrast: the surrounding posts from the same day contain Trump's characteristic verbal fingerprints — run-on constructions, quotation mark deployment, escalating emotional register, the "DeSanctimonious" coinage, ellipses trailing off mid-sentence. This post has none of those. ## Psychological State & Function On its own, this post conveys no psychologically analyzable content. Its function within the day's posting sequence is that of **tribal reset signal and emotional punctuation**. The previous posts culminate in escalating narcissistic injury processing (anticipated indictments, persecution narrative), victimhood-to-martyrdom reframe, and rhetorical attack on a rival. The standalone MAGA slogan serves as a closing bracket — a **supply-seeking mechanism** that shifts the audience from consuming grievance content back to affirmative identity consolidation. It is structurally analogous to a preacher ending a fire-and-brimstone sermon with a congregational hymn. The all-caps rendering is standard for this slogan across Trump's corpus and does not indicate the heightened emotional activation that all-caps usage carries in his more spontaneous posts (e.g., "WITCH HUNT," "ELECTION INTERFERENCE"). ## Narrative Identity The slogan encapsulates the full narrative structure of Trump's Level 3 identity: **contamination sequence** (greatness lost) + **redemptive protagonist** (the one who restores it). The word "AGAIN" carries the entire mythological payload — an implicit golden age, a fall, and a promised return. This is Jungian Hero/Order-Restorer archetype in four words. Notably, the slogan also embeds the **contrasting other** implicitly: if America must be made great *again*, the present occupants have made it *not great*. ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Slogan as identity vessel**: MAGA functions as a Lacanian signifier — an empty form that audiences fill with their own grievance content, making it universally resonant within the in-group. - **Appeal to nostalgic restoration**: "Again" is doing significant ideological work, implying a lost order that the speaker can restore. - **Tribal affirmation and group cohesion**: No argument is made; only membership is signaled. - **Implicit false dichotomy**: The slogan presupposes America is not currently great — a rhetorical claim embedded in the premise rather than stated. ## Cognitive Status Unassessable from a four-word slogan. No linguistic complexity is present from which deviation could be measured. ## Danger Assessment No danger indicators present in this post in isolation. The broader posting sequence on this date merits separate attention — specifically the "great honor" of being indicted framing and anticipation of future indictments — but this specific post is rhetorically inert beyond tribal signaling. ## Contextual Note This post is likely best understood as **manufactured cadence** — digital operations staff placing a brand anchor at a high-visibility afternoon time slot, while the more psychologically revealing content earlier in the day was likely posted closer to authentic Trump dispatch windows. The analytical value of this post lies not in what it says but in what it reveals about the structured, professionalized nature of the posting apparatus. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - 2:45 PM EDT — business hours, within aide-managed window - Zero original content — naked slogan only - No typos, personal affect, or syntactic idiosyncrasy - No emotional reactivity markers present in surrounding authentic posts - Functions as brand punctuation rather than spontaneous dispatch ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Scheduled/brand maintenance post) Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Tribal identity affirmation - Collective identity signaling via shared slogan ## Tags - campaign-slogan (100%) - aide-authored (85%) - tribal-consolidation (70%) - brand-maintenance (80%) - restoration-narrative (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Morning Calm Gives Way to Afternoon Martyrdom as Indictment Looms** Trump posted from Bedminster in two distinct bursts -- a breezy morning round of allied media retweets and a more charged afternoon stretch that grew steadily hotter. The morning was all casual confidence, endorsing allies and mocking Ben & Jerry's, but the afternoon shifted toward legal grievance as he anticipated another indictment and reframed his legal troubles as patriotic sacrifice. He took shots at DeSantis along the way, relishing a Financial Times article about his rival's struggling campaign. The day's emotional peak came when he declared that being arrested by "sick government Thugs" would be his "great honor" -- converting legal jeopardy into a rallying cry before briefly pivoting to the White House cocaine investigation, which he quickly looped back to his own persecution narrative. Full digest for 2023-07-13: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-13/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 13). MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110708257590386084 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" 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